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Lanky_Pomegranate530 to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago

What is a popular book that everyone buys but nobody reads?

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What is a popular book that everyone buys but nobody reads?

Lanky_Pomegranate530 to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago
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  • @JetpackCat@feddit.it
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    149•2 years ago

    The bible

    • @redballooon@lemm.ee
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      27•2 years ago

      I don’t even need to buy them. They just pile up unread. One of them has nice art in it.

      • @alokir@lemmy.world
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        5•2 years ago

        I don’t even need to buy them. They just pile up unread

        How? I’ve read this many times, but I never understood it. Do people just hand them out on the street or is it customary to give bibles as a gift?

        • @redballooon@lemm.ee
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          6•2 years ago

          When you celebrate a life event in church you go home with a new Bible.

          • @RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works
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            Really? I’ve been to weddings and funerals and baptisms in churches and never have I been offered a bible. Maybe it’s a local thing?

            • @atlasraven31@lemm.ee
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              5•2 years ago

              Count yourself lucky. If you want one, any church would be happy to provide.

      • @davefischer@beehaw.org
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        3•2 years ago

        I inherited a ton of books from my father, who was a minister & a Jungian psychologist. Lots of old interesting bibles, in a handful of languages. (Plus a Koran, and some Crowley, and of shelf full of Trotsky… ha ha. Lotta books.)

    • VodkaSolution
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      3•2 years ago

      American? I haven’t seen a bookstore selling a bible in ages, if ever

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